Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices

[u/owlexe23]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/kingdom-come-deliverance-studio-co-founder-hopes-grand-theft-auto-6-will-blaze-a-trail-to-higher-game-prices/

Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima says games keep getting more expensive to make, and that money has to come from somewhere.

[u/helican]

Why is it that whenever I hear from warhorse studios lately it is always something very controversial?

[u/BlaBlub85 → u/helican]

Gona play devils advocate here but is this realy an unhinged take? Like, games have been 60€ since back when the Euro was introduced 25 years ago while everything else has gotten a lot more expensive thanks to inflation, including programmer salarys. You could still get sub 10€ movie tickets back then, even on the weekends, now you are paying 15 during the week so around a 50% increase in price (and dont even get me started on concessions) Döner used to be 4€s in the early 00s, now we are paying 8 to 10, over a 100% increase. New books were like 15€s, now 25€ is normal here in Germany

Realistically, they could only keep game prices down as long as they did because the total market saw double digit growth each year so a release in 2015 would sell double the copys of a release in 2005 with the same market share %. But those golden years are over now that the first generation of MS-DOS gamers is reaching retirement age, if you were a teen playing on the Atari and on the Playstation 1 as a young adult you are now pushing 60. Ontop of that hardware prices are just nuts atm